"Musical note" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a gigantic statue of this Greek hero on the banks of the Nile was said to salute the rising sun with a musical note. ...
— Selections From Poe • J. Montgomery Gambrill
... My other occupations prevented me from proceeding in the further construction of this machine; which might have required but thirteen movements, as shown in the above analysis, unless some variety of musical note was to be added to the vocality produced in the larynx; all of which movements might communicate with the keys of a harpsichord or forte piano, and perform the song as well as the accompaniment; or which if built in a gigantic form, might speak so loud as to command ...
— The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society - A Poem, with Philosophical Notes • Erasmus Darwin
... attention of the casual observer; but it is far from being a song or a whistle like that of the European blackbird, or our robin. Its most familiar call is like the word "BAZIQUE," "BAZIQUE," but it has a wild musical note which Emerson has embalmed ...
— The Writings of John Burroughs • John Burroughs
... quiet evening air, sweet and clear as a silver bell, came the long, musical note of the call that brings the cows home for the milking. It was Bella's ...
— The Man From Glengarry - A Tale Of The Ottawa • Ralph Connor |
